Fish-basket or creel supporting harness.



FISH BASKET OH CREEL SUPPORTING HARNESS.

AFPLICAHON-FILED DEC, 6, I918 Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

rrnp s'rars JAY J. COOK, OF IRON RIVER, MICHIGAN.

'FISH-IBAS KET OR CREEL SUIPPORTING HARNESS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr, 29, rain.

Application filed December 6,1918. 7 Serial No. 265,565.

To all whomit may concern:

' Be it known that I, J AY J. CooK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Iron River, in the county of Iron and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fish-Basket or Creel Supporting Harness, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention comprehends generally improvements in that class of invention known as package and article carriers and more particularly relates to a fish basket or creel supporting harness.

It is the primary aim and object of this invention to provide a device of the above mentioned character designed so that the creel or fish basket will be suspended from the left shoulder leaving the right arm of the fisherman free for casting and manipulating the rod While the creel is also held against the body, a distinct advantage when the fisherman is wading a swift stream or passing through underbrush.

As an additional and equally important object this invention consists in the provision of a supporting harness of the character mentioned of improved construction and designed to receive and support the creel without being attached directly to the creel, being incidentally positioned to brace and reinforce the bottom of the creel and thereby increase the longevity thereof, and in addition the component parts are adjustable so that the harness will accommodate various sizes of the conventional style of creel and at the same time be effectively applied on the body of the fisherman.

Among the other aims and objects of the present invention may be recited the provision of a device of the above mentioned character wherein the number of parts are comparatively few, the construction simple, the lclospl of production low and the efiiciency The improvements in the details and arrangement of parts will be apparent from an inspection of the accompanying drawings, in connection with the specific description hereinafter contained, and wherein the preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed for the purpose of imparting a full understanding of the invention.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the harness detached but showing a creel arranged therein, and i Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing the device applied.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now, more particularly, to the accompanying drawings there is provided a by means of a snap 11001:,6 while the terminal portion is formed with openings 7 for coacting with the buckle 8 carried by the outer end of the other section 9 of the body engaging strap, and which latter section is in turn loosely connected with the other metal ring as at 10. This body engaging strap is designed to be passed about the body and beneath the right shoulder for coacting with the shoulder strap 1 in supporting the harness in its entirety and leaving the right arm of the fisherman free for casting and manipulating the rod (not shown).

With a View toward providing the improved receiver, there is employed a pair of substantially vertically disposed sectional straps generally designated by the numeral 11, the inner short sections 12 of which have their inner ends loosely connected in the respective rings 3 While buckles 13 are fitted on the outer ends thereof and are designed to adjustably engage any of the openings in the inner terminal portions of the main section 14. The major portions of the main section 14 are arranged in a U-shaped form including the intermediate portions 15 and the spaced side portions 16. Upper and lower straps 17 are now provided and arranged in a substantially rectangular form having the side portions connected to the opposing side portions of the main sections 14: preferably near the upper and lower ends of the said side portions 16 by means of fastening de vices 18 and these straps 17 preferably have their adjacent terminal ends respectively fitted with buckles 19 and provided with series of openings 20 for coacting with the buckles 19 in fastening the straps horizontally about the side Walls of a creel 2-1 of a conventional type.

sections 14 are arranged vertically and on opposite sidesof-the' side Walls oft-he creel 21 While the intermedi zttewportions l5 extend v arm and. will eheld. against the body of the .c biy heimpre e arrangement of harnes'ss esnot to interferewith the conv nie ig e'fishe tmen hen W d ng a Pe$$ I: g. fl' f l g ll l erbriis of thegoperetion of he i t nti is. ent y unnee'essem Li ewi e, it. is e eve h the. operates t heiii enti m y -r a It is tq be noted that h side portions 16 of the humor portion of the ,efl. flWQWi f-th fo gqi -de- 'scnptibii them further deta ed desc ip ily eppzurent. Still fn-rther embodiments than those herein especially defined may be resorted to as conditions or preference may dictate, as inzty be in keeping with the hereto app nded. claim...

'Hav lng thtis lnlly described the invention What is claimed as new and deslred to be seoured by Letters Paten isf I A. creel supporting harness including a, shoulder engeglng strap, rings connected to the ends thereof, a, body engaging strep .con-

. nected with the rings; a receiver composed ofa, peir of.sectionelfstreps,each.of the sect1one1 strapsv including inner and mam sections, the inner sections of the sectional rapsfbe g C nn cted it e ing the lIlELlllSQQtiODS being a djnstebly connecteclto the inner sections and arranged in; a U- shaped; form e nbodying en interliiediate .por-

tion. and. spaced side notti oll ls, and upper and, lower strznasv arranged; 1nv rectangular rm. nd ;heving their" de por io s onnected with the sideportions .ofthe main sections and. having their. adjacent tenninel d djus b c cted wi ach othe In testimony whereoi'l afiix mys lgr lature hereto.

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